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Show EDITORIALS ' ' ' " " .... '. -. (By C D. McNeeley) , ' Bingham challenges any other town in the state to show as good a record in the sale of the third Liberty Loan Bonds as we made. Think of it, $33.92 per capita and a total sale of $339,-260 $339,-260 worth of bonds for a town of less than 10,000 people! The workers who put the big drive over are to be congratulated most heartily. ' The tendency of the Salt Lake newspapers is just as unfair to Bingham as their story published recently concerning the discharge dis-charge of 125 Finns, claiming that they were members of the I. W. W. The Finns resented this charge in strong terms and denounced the Salt Lake newspaper which published the story. These papers from Zion seem bent on raking up all the muck pos-eible pos-eible concerning the camp and shooting it through their columns yet they are mighty glad to accept our big pay checks in exchange jfor their shoddy merchandise. , ' Several people have expressed themselves as being greatly in favor of our plan to license salesmen who come to Bingham to sell commercial stocks of any nature. Besides, being a protection to the people in a sense it would bring some revenue to the city. The majority of these salesmen get from 50 to 100 per cent of the money they collect, and there is no reason why they should not pay a license, and we feel that it should be a heavy one, too. After listening to the harrowing story told by the British Red Cross nurse one almost feels like going out and taking a crack at a German just for luck. But that would perhaps be a little too rash, yet when you have known a man 29 years and he has lived in your country and made money off of your patronage, and then will aid and abet a horde which is planning nothing but destruction destruc-tion and death to the innocent children of your community it seems that none of their clan can be trusted. The utter lack of ' manhood as told by this nurse and the complete failure to respond to the tender emotions of an innocent babe are inconceivable to . the human mind, and yet this seems to be the case with the German Ger-man soldiers who murder and kill without regard to the innocent r guilty. When a soldier will march down the street and drive his bayonet through an innocent babe in its mother's arms and carry it thus before the public he is so depraved that he would disgrace dis-grace the barberous tribes which destroyed ancient Rome. . |
